Archive for 2009-12-17

December 17, 2009

Bloggery with Intent to Chronicle Poker - Back to the Beginning

The year was 1999. I was 29 years old and had recently gone through a divorce. Starting life anew, I was attending college at night while working as a computer programmer during the day. It was mid-February when I rented a movie on a rainy Saturday night that would change my life forever. The movie starred two of my favorite new actors. Edward Norton, who was brilliant in Primal Fear, and Matt Damon, also superb in Good Will Hunting. The name of the movie was Rounders.I had played poker when I was in the Navy. It was a different kind of poker though. Read more

December 17, 2009

Online Poker Room Round-Up: A tourney called the Mini, why Titan is celebrating 2010 and a site that's a Winner

We'll kick off our round-up of top online poker rooms by asking a question: Why does Full Tilt Poker call it the MiniFTOPS when there's nothing really small about it?Yes, it's a smaller version of the FTOPS that comes around every few months on Full Tilt, but some of these prize pools were hardly tiny, at least not to this low-limit player.The Mini only lasts until Dec. 20, so either you were there or you weren't. But I thought one of the best things about the Minis was the challenges that Full Tilt gave us during the series. Read more

December 17, 2009

Two Plus Two Sues Over Domain Name Trademark Issues

Two Plus Two Publishing, home of the ever popular Two Plus Two forums, filed lawsuits in Las Vegas in early December against several individuals. The federal court actions allege trademark violations against Anthony Scocozza, Jacknames.com, and Russell Aaron “Dutch” Boyd.The first suit, filed on December 4 against Scocozza, noted that its online forums and “poker information community” depends on its business - and hundreds of thousands of members and customers around the world - but that Scocozza infringed upon the Two Plus Two domain name by linking his domain to a competing site. Read more

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PokerStars Americas Cup of Poker Get ready to represent your country and do it in fabulous Argentina, compliments of PokerStars. But you need to get started, April 15 is the final day to make the team. Read all about it here!